Frances Velay Fellows - Summer 2023
Meet the students who participated in the Velay Fellowship Program - Summer 2023!
The Frances Velay Women and Science Research Fellowship program at Stony Brook is administered by URECA in collaboration with Dr. Maria Nagan (Department of Chemistry) and the College of Arts & Sciences.
Aleena Ali
Chemistry major
Mentor
Dr. Peter Tonge (Chemistry)
Project
Structure-Kinetic relationship for the development of long residence time LpxC inhibitors
for Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Victoria Castle
Geology major
Mentor
Dr. Marine Frouin (Geosciences)
Project
Luminescence Dating of Terrace Development in the Udorka Valley, Poland
Nina Cheng
Biology major
Mentor
Dr. Wali Karzai (Biochemistry & Cell Biology)
Project
Shocked? Heat Shock Protein Q Promotes Rapid Degradation of Antitoxins
Sarah Gunasekera
Applied Mathematics & Statistics, Biology majors
Mentor
Dr. Carlos Simmerling (Chemistry)
Project
Improving RNA Hairpin Simulations through Adjustment of Force Field Parameters for
Interaction of Aliphatic Hydrogens and Backbone Oxygens
Iveliz Hernandez
Biology major
Mentor
Dr. Tara Smiley (Ecology & Evolution)
Project
Exploring Fungal Diversity: Using Forest Surveys to Investigate Plant-Fungi Mutualism
as an Ecosystem Service
Anna Kovalskaya
Astronomy major
Mentor
Dr. Kenneth Lanzetta (Physics & Astronomy)
Project
Transiting Planets Around White Dwarf Stars
Christine Meiselbach
Geology major
Mentor
Dr. Hanna Nekvasil (Geosciences)
Project
Tridymite: New Insights into an Old Problem
Amy Phi
Biology major
Mentor
Dr. Hyungjin Kim (Pharmacological Sciences)
Project
Dynamics of RPA Phosphorylation in the Replication Stress Response
Emma Scher
Chemistry major
Mentor
Dr. Jeffrey Lipshultz (Chemistry)
Project
Ansa-titanocene complexes as photocatalysts for C-H fluorination
Esha Singh
Physics, Mathematics majors
Mentor
Dr. J. Perez-Rios (Physics & Astronomy)
Project
The Kicked Rotor Mechanism: Toy Model for Quantum Chaos